Always Quote by Chris Coleman

I knew I wanted to play for Wales from an early age.

— Harry Wilson

My father was from Belfast; my mother was from Crossmolina. I grew up in Dublin.

— Colm Wilkinson

My dad's Irish, so I was visiting Ireland a lot as a kid, so it's not totally foreign to me.

— Katherine Ryan

My father was a typical Irish father. He was a nice, hard working, driven guy. His politics were very conservative and I was just…

— Ardal O'Hanlon

On my mum Marie's side, my nana was from the Republic of Ireland, and my granddad was from the north. Lots of families in…

— Paul Scholes

My family are very happy that I'm playing with Ireland. It's my dad's side, and he's really, really proud. He wants me to play…

— Declan Rice

My father's parents were Irish. Only a year before my father died, he and I went back to Ireland for a week to look…

— Anonymous

I'm from an Irish family and, even though I grew up in 80s London, I spent a lot of my childhood in southwest Ireland.

— Roisin Conaty

I like to think I'm a bit of a son of the country, I've played for the country so many times I feel proud…

— Gareth Thomas

My lineage is partially Irish.

— Devin Townsend

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

— Olivia Wilde

Being a young Kiwi lad, a young Polynesian boy, I was pretty close to my family. But when I moved to Sydney, I went…

— Sonny Bill Williams